This section aims to support teachers plan and teach digital literacy.

“Digital literacy empowers people to purposefully, critically and creatively engage with computing technology for almost all aspects of life, learning and work.”

Education Scotland (2025)

Digital Skills

As digital touches so many parts of our lives, there are so many aspects to think about. This section tries to simplify this for teachers by making clear the most fundamental digital skills that are required for many daily tasks in life, learning and work.
These should be considered a starting point and as learners meet these outcomes, then teachers should plan more creative, critical and purposeful applications of those digital skills and knowledge.

The Learner Digital Skills Toolkit is designed to support teachers plan digital literacy learning. It is a clear and concise guide to the knowledge and skills that learners need to be digitally competent to participate in learning and life.

What knowledge, skills and attributes make a learner digitally literate?

The links below provide guidance, resources and examples for teachers planning digital literacy learning.

- Learners should understand how computers and apps work, how to control them and solutions to simple issues, like resetting them. They should be able to use common inputs, such… …

- Learners should understand how computers and apps work, how to control them and solutions to simple issues, like resetting them. They should be able to use common inputs, such… …

- Learners should understand how computers store and are able to share content. They should be able to use ‘common apps’, such as O365 or Adobe Express to create documents, edit… …

- Learners should know how web browsers and search engines work and how this might affect their search results. They should also understand that anyone can publish anything on the internet… …